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A path for Bachmann

Michele Bachmann has a rocky but plausible path to an Iowa caucuses win despite the major surge of Rick Perry, the Des Moines Register argues today in a write-up with seven suggested fixes, including raising money, punching at Perry and essentially living in Iowa.

The story also highlights one disadvantage Bachmann has — gender:

“If things keep trending and this is still about personas, she will lose because Perry’s a male and a governor, and governor of a big state — he’s a profile of what voters are used to,” said Steve Deace, a conservative radio talk show host who closely follows politics. “There’s a security factor there.”

However, if Bachmann makes the race about issues, “she can definitely beat him in Iowa,” Deace said.

Bachmann started drawing contrasts during interviews in Iowa on Friday.

“I’ve demonstrated something that the other candidates haven’t,” she told Radio Iowa. “That’s a level of consistency as a conservative. I never supported the government takeover of health care, but the other two leading candidates have.”

“I did not support the stimulus bill,” she said. “I did not support the bailout, and we have other leading candidates who have, so there is a strong mark of demarcation between us.”

Yet another story about the fall of Bachmann that makes no mention that 75% of what got her in this mess is her mouth. Her gaffes and very odd remarks about her beliefs are what caused the slide. Unless she intends to remain silent... she has no shot.

I disagree her gaffes got her in this mess. Remember, because of their paranoid, "everyone is out to get us'" bunker mentality, conservatives blame the liberal media for everything and pledge unyielding support to their candidates no matter how many gaffes they make and how preposterous said gaffes are.

Doesn't it seem like these tea party voters are extremely fickle? One month their darling is Trump, next month it's Bachmann, this month it's Perry - judging by the polls wild jumping around to date, it wouldn't take much for them to flip again before Iowa.

The only thing Bachman have done so far is to be mean spirited and criticize everything the president have done to try and pull us out of this terrible recession. I guess ms Bachman haven't heard of the saying, a bird in the hand is better than two in the bush, her criticism is akin to spit on hot concrete. As a mater of fact, that is all she and the Republicans have offered up, criticism. How do we know if the economic plans they talked about is going to work? We are fed-up with the noise coming from the GOP who offfers nothing but hot air.

The corporate creators and manipulators of the "tea party", the Koch brothers, Freedomworks, et. al., see Perry as a much better bet - he has demonstrated a willingness to shamelessly betray his alleged principles at the drop of a large check, as in the case of the mandated vaccine program, while Bachmann shows signs of actually having a belief system, however twisted. Bachmann is now even less relevant than Ron Paul.

She has not a prayer of winning the nomination no matter how many Iowa caucuses she wins. The only person in the entire world who does not know this is apparently Michelle Bachmann. She, however has never been known as a brain trust anyhow.